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What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never… — Enric Sala
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although… — Gerald Fischbach
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones… — Robert Klein
We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with… — Barbara Lee
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of… — Justin Martyr
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions… — Lilly Ledbetter
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.… — Arthur Eddington
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes — Murray Edelman
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it… — Grove Karl Gilbert
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.… — Michael Dummett
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world… — John Searle
If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should… — Grete Waitz

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